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1921 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 129.12 (Matthew Henry)
… to dispense rewards and punishments. (4.) He is not so sensible as he ought to be of the obligation he lay under, by virtue of the divine commission and command …
1922 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 132.23 (Matthew Henry)
… this dispensation.” All the world shall see how God hates sin even in his own people, and will reckon for it, and yet how gracious and merciful he is, and how slow …
1923 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 133.1 (Matthew Henry)
… severe dispensation they wee under, and would not unchurch them. Here is, I. The law concerning the meat-offerings and drink-offerings ( Numbers 15:1-15:12 ) both …
1924 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 136.9 (Matthew Henry)
… God dispenses his favours variously. The Levites have the honour of attending the tabernacle, which is denied the Israelites; but then the Israelites have …
1925 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 143.6 (Matthew Henry)
… -Testament dispensation, and should then have its perfection and perpetuity in the unchangeable priesthood of Christ, who is consecrated for evermore …
1926 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 147.2 (Matthew Henry)
… will dispense with sacrifices in consideration of works of necessity and mercy, yet the more leisure we have from the pressing occasions of this life the …
1927 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 147.3 (Matthew Henry)
… legal dispensation should wax old, and vanish away at last; and the multitude of their sacrifices should end in one great sacrifice, infinitely more worthy …
1928 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 159.3 (Matthew Henry)
… a dispensation of terror, designed to make the gospel of grace the more welcome, and to be a specimen of the terrors of the judgment-day, Psalms 50:3, 50:4. (2.) He added …
1929 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 161.4 (Matthew Henry)
… that dispensation under which such multitudes of beasts were killed and burned in sacrifice, now that all sacrifices of atonement are perfected in, and …
1930 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 164.11 (Matthew Henry)
… the dispensation is the more spiritual we are obliged to be, and to go the closer in mortifying sin. And be no more stiff-necked, as they had been hitherto, Deuteronomy …
1931 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 166.13 (Matthew Henry)
… and dispensed with which would by no means be allowed at another time. Cases of necessity are to be considered while the necessity continues; but that must …
1932 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 172.13 (Matthew Henry)
… new dispensation by signs and wonders and mighty deeds, and so was Christ, by which he proved himself a teacher come from God. Was Moses faithful? So was Christ …
1933 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 172.14 (Matthew Henry)
… designed dispensation to the people’s avowed choice and desire at Mount Sinai, Deuteronomy 18:16, 18:17. There God had spoken to them in thunder and lightning …
1934 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 174.7 (Matthew Henry)
… be dispensed with., Or, (3.) If a man had made up his mind to be married, and the marriage were not solemnized, he was at liberty to return ( Deuteronomy 20:7 ), as also to …
1935 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 175.13 (Matthew Henry)
… in dispensing their affections among their children than what they see plainly God makes in dispensing his grace among them. (2.) Since it is the providence …
1936 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 178.3 (Matthew Henry)
… be dispensed with, that he may cheer up the wife that he has taken. Note, 1. It is of great consequence that love be kept up between husband and wife, and that every …
1937 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 178.5 (Matthew Henry)
… be dispensed with, nor think it hard to be shut out of the camp and so made a spectacle; there is no remedy: Miriam herself, though a prophetess and the sister of …
1938 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 179.4 (Matthew Henry)
… that dispensation we have reason to think men had not so clear and certain a prospect of living themselves on the other side death as we have now, to whom life …
1939 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 183.2 (Matthew Henry)
… to dispense the seals of it. This is said to be besides the covenant made in Horeb; for, though the covenant was the same, yet it was a new promulgation and ratification …
1940 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 183.10 (Matthew Henry)
… typical dispensation of the covenant of grace, it is a noble testimony to the Mediator of that covenant, who is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever .